A week after half-ditching the site, I realized I can talk on here without a risk of my blog getting terminated (again).
I've been on Tumblr for the last 10+ years - I saw the site go from one shade of blue to the next, rearrange its formats, kick out the xKit guy, and now become Twitter 2: Barely Better This Time. It's really awful what the site has come to specifically over the last 4-5 years; the porn ban was really the beginning of the end, because it gave Tumblr moderators free reign to call anything they wanted nsfw, including trans people and completely sfw artworks. I remember when Tumblr literally was a free-for-all, it actually felt like a social media people could use without the risk of being bombarded with sponsored posts and influencers. Tumblr was a site for people who wanted to use social media, but weren't into the 'social' part of the ordeal.

And here's the thing... it wouldn't be that hard to 'fix' Tumblr.
Tumblr live being gone is the first step, and they luckily wouldn't have to do anything about it now. Nobody wanted it, nobody used it, and it was just a way for more porn bots to enter and use the site. I think Tumblr needs to realize that the userbase likes what the site looked like in 2018 or so, and they should've just stuck to form. They have added good things to Tumblr over the years - polls being the biggest - but actively talking to the people that use the site and listening to their ideas would easily make the whole thing run and look a lot better. Reformatting the site to actually look distinctive from its competitors again would clear the rest of that up, too.
The second thing would be actually using real human people to moderate the site, namely people who realize that hate groups exist and would rather an entire section of the population be dead than happy. Then, scrub said hate groups off the website for once. They have more than enough active and inactive reports, resources, lists, and callout posts to hunt down every nazi and terf on the platform and terminate them. The same could be applied to tags, instead of banning queer health resources, banning the tags that support literal genocide. It's sooo easy!
Of course, I'm not a real web developer, what do I know? Maybe appealing to solely hategroups and the literal scum of the earth and alienating your original userbase is a business strategy these days. Queerest place on the internet my ass.

Ugh.
I'm gonna throw some of the upcoming stuff I have planned for my base webpage on here so anyone that stumbles in knows what to look for.

☣ Feeling: Vindictive